U+AE98 "꺘" Hangul Syllable Ggyass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꺘
U+AE98 "꺘" Hangul Syllable Ggyass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, specifically representing the sound "gjyat" or "ggyaht" depending on romanization. This syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant "꺄" (a tensed or reinforced version of the consonant "giyeok" for a harder 'g' sound) with the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a double 's' or 'ss') and the vowel "ㅑ" (ya), resulting in a complex cluster that appears in certain Korean words and names. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible modern Hangul syllables in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AE98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyass |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꺄" U+AE84 Hangul Syllable Ggya "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꺘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꺘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBA 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAE98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AE98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uae98 |